Willie Wong wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 08:59:09PM -0500, Penguin Lover Jim squawked:
> 
>>I was wondering if anyone has some easy to do tips for checking the
>>security of Apache.  I am running Apache/2.0.55.  Is apache good with
>>handling bad URL's?  I remember with an IIS server I use to have I
>>needed to install a url filter to help it out.  I noticed that I get
>>requests like the following in my apache log:
>>
>>70.121.133.60 - - [07/Mar/2006:21:31:05 -0500] "SEARCH
>>/\x90\xc9\xc9\xc9\xc9\xc9\
>>
>>The above is one line and it is 30,000 characters long in the log file.
>>

You may want to look into mod_security for apache as well. IIRC it is
designed to protect from such attacks.


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